Illinois and local officials announced Cook County will continue funding the medical debt forgiveness program next year, once funds run out.

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A robot could soon operate on patients at Stroger Hospital who need surgery. Cook County Health officially launched its Robotic Surgery Program. County board members and health ...

Cook County on Monday launched of Cook County CannaBiz Pathways, a no-cost advising program for entrepreneurs working in the cannabis industry. The program will offer participants an opportunity to ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced Friday that it is expanding a pilot program allowing Chicago police officers to bypass prosecutors and directly file charges in some low-level ...

In a significant development for social policy in the United States, Cook County, Illinois, has made a bold decision to transform a pandemic relief pilot into a permanent initiative. This move marks a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COOK COUNTY, Ill. — Cook County is moving to ...

Cook County’s pilot program to provide guaranteed income to more than 3,000 people did what it was intended to do, early findings suggest — it helped provide some economic stability. “We got to make ...

Inside the Cook County Jail, the sound echoing through Division 3 Annex wasn’t the usual clank of metal doors, it was ...